A U.S. judge says the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the law when it failed to develop a plan to prevent the harming of humpback whales by West Coast commercial fishermen catching sablefish.
FILE - This photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows a humpback whale after is was entangled in heavy line and freed off Hawaii on March 15, 2022. A U.S. judge this week ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the law when it failed to develop a plan to prevent the harming of humpback whales by West Coast commercial fishermen catching sablefish.
About 150 commercial fishing vessels use traps to capture sablefish in waters off California, Oregon and Washington. The number of pots ranges from 15 to 50 while the lines can stretch about two miles , according to court documents. The fishery deployed an annual average of 75,000 pots from 2015 to 2019, the document said.
“This is a clear win for endangered humpback whales, who face enough deadly threats in the water already,” Kristen Monsell, the center's oceans legal director, said in a statement. Most of the fishing was concentrated off Astoria and Newport in Oregon and off Fort Bragg and San Francisco in California, the lawsuit said.
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